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Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
1 479 kr
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Recent scholarship has begun to view human-made cultural products, such as literature and works of art, not only as reflective of contemporary ideas, norms and social or theological conceptions, but as active agents in shaping these notions. This collection investigates how various forms of cultural expression, including romances, philosophical treatises, chronicles, murals, decorative objects and illustrations, contributed to the construction of cognitive, emotional and sensual human experiences in the medieval and early modern periods.Delving into multiple case studies of literary texts and works of art created around the globe for different communities and individuals, the chapters unravel the influence of cultural products on learning emotional norms in each setting, and explores the role of emotional rhetoric in the educational process of those individuals and communities. Not only do these cultural artifacts offer insights into the significance of particular emotions, or reveal the underlying systems of feeling prevalent in the community, they demonstrate how the texts and images themselves reinforced, challenged and reshaped what that society perceived to be valuable or detrimental.Bringing reception studies and the history of emotions together, this collection makes an important contribution to the history of emotions in premodern contexts, and in relation to literary studies, material culture and art history.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 375 kr
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Carved cassoni, marriage chests finely adorned with mythological reliefs, stood at the heart of elite domestic life in sixteenth-century Italy. This book offers the first comprehensive study of sixteenth-century cassoni and their imagery, restoring them to the center of early modern visual culture.Placed prominently in the nuptial chamber, Cinquecento carved cassoni stored dowries, proclaimed family prestige, and surrounded newlyweds with vivid scenes from classical mythology. Stories of Niobe’s tragic loss, Marsyas’ fatal challenge, Venus’ ambivalent nature, and Apollo’s heroic and cautionary roles unfolded across their panels, blending beauty with moral instruction. Drawing on Ovid, mythographies, and domestic treatises, this volume reveals how these chests functioned as gendered didactic tools, shaping ideals of virtue, fertility, and social conduct. It also uncovers an early form of mass production in the elite art market as it traces their evolution from bespoke commissions to stock-designed luxury goods, illuminating the intimate intersection of classical learning, consumer culture, and marital life in early modern Italy.This book will appeal to a broad audience of scholars, students, researchers, museum professionals and general readers interested in the Renaissance, early modern Italy, art history, gender studies, visual and media studies, and the art of storytelling through objects.